I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.

A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.

We aren't consistent in our treatment of animals.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.